Mountain Justice: Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal for the Future of Us All Current Events Jamie Heckert

Jamie Heckert

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Mountain Justice: Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal for the Future of Us All Current Events Jamie Heckertby Tricia Shapiro AK Press 2010 SKU: 9781849350235 Mountaintop removal (MTR) does exactly what it says: A mountaintop is stripped of trees, blown to bits with explosives, then pushed aside by giant equipment all to expose a layer of coal to be mined. In recent years, local people fighting against MTR's destruction of their homes in West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia have invited volunteers from outside Appalachia's coalfields to help